Yesterday, the International Monetary Fund released a report on the world economy, revising upward its predictions for U.S. economic growth while lowering its projections for many Western European countries. It also cautioned that the global recovery is imperiled due to the sovereign debt crises in Europe:
Downside risks have
BERLIN — President Obama’s push for additional economic stimulus is not just hitting a wall in Congress. The president has also been rebuffed by the largest European countries — with potentially profound consequences for the U.S. economy and Obama’s national agenda.
[Economy1] In the run-up to the G-20 summit in More…
Wikileaks obtained and published (PDF) a CIA “Red Cell” analysis — that’s what the agency presents either to counter received wisdom or to be deliberately provocative — on bolstering support for the Afghanistan war among skeptical European publics. (Hat tip to Jeremy Scahill.) Among the strategies employed: More…
It hurts not to be taken seriously, and that’s why the Iranian dictator went around boasting that he was going to deliver a knockout blow to the West in his speech today. The speech just kind of swung and missed. How badly? Mark Hosenball explains:
Rasmussen Reports gins up the “does President Obama hate America and love Europe” controversy — which doesn’t seem to be, er, denting Obama’s improving poll numbers — by asking whether Americans think they’ve been too arrogant with Europe. Surprise!
Thirty-seven percent of American voters agree that in
Last year, the Obama campaign promised to deliver a major speech on U.S.-Muslim relations in a Muslim capital during the president’s first year in office. Today, President Obama fulfills that promise by addressing the Turkish parliament. It’s a clever, multi-layered statement: Obama visits a capital in a majority-Muslim country as More…
What’s in store for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke at tomorrow’s United Nations conference on Afghanistan at The Hague? And for Thursday’s NATO summit in Strasbourg, which President Obama will address? Empty promises, dashed hopes and lowered expectations, according to this preview from More…
Foreign Policy magazine’s Website hosts an interesting blog written by GOP foreign policy luminaries and Bush administration veterans called Shadow Government, which bills itself as featuring “notes from the loyal opposition.” It’s a good blog, filled with often-insightful critiques of President Obama’s emerging foreign policy from the More…
The overwhelming reaction in Europe to the election of Sen. Barack Obama has been one of enthusiasm and support. Yet a scan of the European press also reveals some peculiar — and some deplorable — responses.
Der Spiegel reports on the shock that has rippled through the German-speaking world after More…
The editor of the London Arabic-language newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi, Abdel Bari Atwan, all but begs us not to overlook Al Qaeda’s increasing hold over North Africa.
In Algeria, Al Qaeda in 2006 formally merged with the Algerian Salafist group known as the GPSC to form Al Qaeda in More…
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